Taylor Swift’s highly-anticipated third studio album will be released worldwide on October 25th, Taylor herself announced on July 20 during a web chat with her fans.

Entitled SPEAK NOW, the album will be released on Big Machine Records and contains 14 tracks, all written solely by Taylor. Taylor co-produced the project with Nathan Chapman, and the first single from the new record, “Mine,” will be released on August 16th.

“Saying the right thing at the right moment is so crucial that most of us start to hesitate, for fear of saying the wrong thing at the wrong time. But lately what I’ve begun to fear more than that is letting the moment pass without saying anything,” Taylor says of the very personal collection that is Speak Now. “These songs are made up of words I didn’t say when the moment was right in front of me. These songs are open letters. Each is written with a specific person in mind, telling them what I meant to tell them in person.”

Starting on August 20th, Speak Now will be available for special pre-sale on the site SpeakNow13.com.

Taylor Swift is featured on The TIME Magazine annual issue of The 100 Most Influential People in The World. The article on her was written by Stevie Nicks, check it out:

When I first got the call from Taylor Swift about performing with her at this year’s Grammy Awards, I really didn’t want to do it. She’s 20 years old, 5 ft. 11 in. and slender; I’m 40 years older and, to be frank, neither of the other two things! I was not about to stand next to this girl on national television. But her little face just lights up like a star, and I couldn’t say no.

Taylor reminds me of myself in her determination and her childlike nature. It’s an innocence that’s so special and so rare. This girl writes the songs that make the whole world sing, like Neil Diamond or Elton John. She sings, she writes, she performs, she plays great guitar. Taylor can do ballads that could be considered pop or rock and then switch back into country. When I turned 20 years old, I had just made the serious decision to never be a dental assistant. Taylor just turned 20, and she’s won four Grammys.

I still walk around singing her song “Today Was a Fairytale.” All of us girls want that boy to pick us up and think that we look beautiful even though we’re in jeans and clogs. We want it at 14, and we want it at 60. Taylor is writing for the universal woman and for the man who wants to know her. The female rock-’n'-roll-country-pop songwriter is back, and her name is Taylor Swift. And it’s women like her who are going to save the music business.

Taylor Swift’s lead-single for her last album “Fearless” has been certified 4x Platinum for being legally downloaded over 4 million times off digital retailers in the U.S. “Love Story” becomes the biggest selling country single from the Billboard digital singles era (since 2005, when digital sales started being officially tracked by Billboard).

“Love Story” became Taylor’s first Top 5 Hot 100 hit and also her first Top 5 Pop radio hit (both peaking at #4). It also enjoyed success internationally and peaked in the Top 3 in some countries including: Australia (#1), Ireland, UK, Japan, New Zealand and Canada.

CONGRATULATIONS TAYLOR!

USAToday.com : The first single from Taylor Swift’s third album will go to radio in late summer or early fall, and the album will follow late in the year. “She was on an amazing writing spree through December and January, and we were able to go in and cut all those things,” Scott Borchetta (Big Machine Records chief, Taylor’s label) says. “If she writes something great between now and July, it will go on the record. She’s been extraordinarily prolific the last six months.”

People.com: Taylor Swift, whose eight Grammy nominations are second only to Beyoncé’s 10, will be a performer and presenter at 52nd Grammy Awards in Los Angeles on Jan. 31, an inside source tells PEOPLE.

The 20-year-old practically stole the show at the Grammys last February by performing a duet with Miley Cyrus of the song “Fifteen,” featured on Taylor’s album Fearless.

That album has since gone five times platinum, picked up a slew of industry awards, and is nominated for Album of the Year and Best Country Album at the upcoming Grammys.

The official poster for “Valentine’s Day”, a movie that is featuring our girl Taylor Swift, her debut as movie actress has been released and Taylor is also featured on it. It’s so nice to see her and Taylor Lautner in this so star-studded movie….

Valentine’s Day opens in theaters on February 12 2010. Click here to watch the trailer.

MTV UK: Taylor Swift is being lined up to play Supergirl in a new film- according to reports.

The star is apparently film bosses fist choice for the big role, despite having only acted in one film so far.

She appears opposite Taylor Lautner in rom-com Valentine’s Day- which is released, er, you can guess.

A source told Bang Showbiz: “A number of young stars are being mentioned for the title role in a Supergirl movie and possible TV spinoff, and Taylor is top of that list. She has all the right elements to be a positive role model to young girls.”

Swift has had a massive 2009 becoming one of the biggest selling artists in the world and winning countless awards.

People: Taylor Swift is no longer a teen: The country superstar marked turning 20 with a Christmas-themed birthday party for friends, her band and her tour crew at her family’s home in Hendersonville, Tenn.

“It’s more like an end-of-year Christmas party that happens to be on my birthday,” says Swift, who spent the night before at home, baking butter cookies and gingerbread cookies with cream-cheese icing for her guests.

The biggest gift came from Swift herself. The singer has donated $250,000 to schools around the country that she’s either attended or worked with. The money will pay teachers’ salaries as well as buy books and fund various educational programs.

“Something I wanted to do at the end of this amazing year and especially on my birthday was give back to something I really believe in, which is education,” says Swift. “The schools that I went to and the amazing people I got to learn from really turned me into who I am, and I wanted to give back.”

It’s already December 13 and Taylor celebrates today her 20th birthday! Congratulations Tay!

Billboard.com: To say Taylor Swift had a remarkable year would be a comic understatement. She sold more albums than any artist not named Michael Jackson. Her first headlining tour, Fearless 2009, sold out every show within minutes. She became the youngest woman to win the Country Music Assn.’s entertainer of the year award, and she set seemingly every chart record that exists.

But most important, she proved herself a graceful, timeless celebrity, handling hosting duties on “Saturday Night Live” and a rampaging Kanye West at the MTV Video Music Awards with equal aplomb. Billboard caught up with her on the phone from London to discuss her exhilarating last 12 months.

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Taylor Swift also made some lists on the year-end Billboard chart, like The 200 Albums, Radio Songs, Adult Contemporary Songs and some others, check the full Billboard year-end charts here.